Arrival of the Death Cart
"Bring out your dead"
the plague carrier said
as the death cart
passed on its way.
But nothing was said
from the lips of the dead
as they carted
the bodies away.
The living hung back
or peered through a crack
as they carted
the bodies away.
"Bring out your dead"
the plague carrier said
as the death cart
passed on its way.
Note: About the Great Plague of London in 1665. But more recently could apply to COVID.
Mike Everley has had fiction and poetry published in the Anglo Welsh Review, Cambrensis, New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales, Outposts, Cardiff Poet, Undiscovered Poet, Entheoscope, Poetry News (Poetry Society), Lothlorien Online Poetry Journal, 5-7-5 Haiku Online Journal, 101 Words, Cranked Anvil, Voice Club and Acumen. He also has poetry accepted for next year's issues of Red Poets and The Seventh Quarry. He has had articles published in general, specialist, family history and literary magazines and journals including: New Statesman, My Weekly, Popular Crafts, Family Tree, Family History, Who Do You Think You Are and Ancestors. He was a member of both the NUJ and the Society of Authors before retirement.
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